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This year’s draws for the senior, intermediate and junior Galway football club championships have been made with all groups in each of the three grades boasting a round-robin formula.

From a famous footballing family in Mervue, Ann Regan (Carr) continues to make a significant contribution to sport in the west of Ireland. This week in UL she is in charge of the Galway FA’s Gaynor Cup squad, who are eager to make an impact on the national stage.

A three-bedroom home in the popular residential development of Creagan in sought after Barna is for sale by O'Donnellan & Joyce Auctioneers.

DNG Maxwell Heaslip & Leonard has been favoured with the sale of this outstanding two bedroom apartment located in the centre of Barna village in the award winning O’Malley built An Creagan development. Completed in 2003, the complex is made up of luxury apartments and homes with all the amenities that beautiful Barna village has to offer. This hugely sought-after location offers easy access to shops, schools, restaurants, and numerous sports and recreational facilities, with Galway city centre just a 20 minute drive away.

A challenge to an approved plan for 121 homes in Barna, has been rejected by the High Court.

It is probable that if the coastal route had been chosen for the Clifden railway, rather than the Oughterard/ Maam Cross way, the line would still be viable today. The idea of the so-called ‘Balfour lines’, proposed by an enlightened chief secretary for Ireland, Arthur J Balfour, and given the go-ahead in the 1889 Light Railways (Ireland) Act, was to give far-flung towns and communities access to bigger markets, and to grasp the benefits of employment and opportunities.

The long running, highly controversial, and often bizarre saga of the Galway City Ring Road is finally set to both come to an end, and begin to become a reality, following An Bord Pleanála’s decision, on Tuesday, to grant planning permission.

The Galway City Ring Road will see a massive reduction in traffic congestion in the city centre, and travel times cut by more than 40 per cent; or it will see even greater levels of traffic clog our roads and drastically increase Galway’s carbon emissions.

Policy-makers could really benefit from talking to children more. In a survey carried out at an event in June organised by the Galway National Park City initiative involving young people from 13 city primary schools, participants were asked what they loved most about Galway.

For a decade Gary Fitzgerald resisted the temptation that always existed to get back involved in football.